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Tonight Newspaper shuts down

Tonight Newspaper is no more. The free evening commuter paper, launched with newsies and some fanfare back in 2009, closed quietly last week after its May 29th issue. For anyone paying attention, its demise isn't a surprise. The once daily paper was sold in January 2013 to Annex Business Media and immediately fired its Editor-in-Chief and scaled down to a twice a week publishing schedule.

Aside from adding Sportsnet as a content partner in 2012 and tweaking its design a few times, the paper failed to really evolve over the years. It faced fierce competition from rivals Metro and 24 Hours and wasn't able to make any inroads online. blogTO was once a content partner too but we pulled out of the relationship last year after the founders had left, the staff had completely turned over and the publication, in our view, had lost its way.

Will you miss Tonight Newspaper? Add your thoughts to the comments below.

In terms of availability, It was okay at the beginning. They hired too many people to give them away but that disappeared after a while. It was harder to find which meant the end was near.

The content was very lacking. Half the paper was ads and shout outs for guys/girls looking for someone cute on their GO train ride. Considering that the paper was only available downtown, the target audience would have gotten news from their phones instead.

The Shout Outs were fun to read at first but then they turned into personal ads. It got better after it started once there was more non-news content but then it basically started withering away. The latest in a line of casualties... anyone remember "Dose"?